Hopefully this will be a five day work week and that I'll still be able to take on private tuition. I wouldn't mind doing just private tuition for my job but idk, somehow, it doesn't seem like a legit, real job... but it is a lucrative career.
In the absence of the pressure to seek a "real job", I would just do private tutoring and spend my money and time doing artsy stuff (like maybe going for modern calligraphy?) and signing myself up for yoga or pilates and travel.
I have never envisioned myself doing great things and going really far in my career. I just want to spend my life with no regrets and to try things that I'm interested in - like so far, I've tried
- cashiering (yes I've always been curious and interested in learning how to operate a cash register)
- making soy milk (I applied for the job because I liked the soy milk so I was hoping to get free flow soy milk while working there )
- giving out free candies (because the shop was tiny and who can resist a tiny shop selling tiny bottles filled with tiny candies)
- being a sales assistant at a shop selling blogshop clothes (hoping to get staff discount for some of the clothes)
- being a waitress (that was my first job after O levels? It was low paying but I had a lot of fun working with my friends like how we will spoil orders to get free ice cream)
- manning a cafe all by myself. Okay Jiayan and I took turns manning the shop on different days. I learnt that it is not easy to serve a perfect scoop of ice cream and that making waffles is fun.
- being a banquet server (because I heard it pays well but that was not fun at all. The platters were all so heavy and you don't even get to eat the banquet food :( I guess I chose the wrong kind of banquet job but that was just for a day so it was good experience)
- being a clinic assistant for two months. It was not so much of fun because the clinic is pretty busy so you have to dispense the medicine while reading illegible handwriting and weigh babies and measure their head circumferences etc. but still, I gained some experience
- being a promotor for an item I have no clue on how to promote. That was during the IT fair and I was supposed to promote speakers? It's difficult to promote some thing that is of really poor quality. The speakers only seem to work well when I play a particular song so I put that song on replay hoping to sell them lololol I remember this uncle asked if I could play The Beatles/Adele, I said I don't have them in my iPod but I just didn't want to play these songs because they would have made the speakers sound really bad
- doing data entry (that was a follow-up job to compile the pay check for it fair I think?)
- doing packing stuff for a book fair
- teaching a class of 40 for 2 weeks (not easy hello~ And especially difficult when I feel so small in comparison to the students)
- giving private tuition
I think my longest part time job was the one making soy milk. Probably because I was in my favourite mall (Ion) with my favourite mall toilets and.. I got free soy milk.
So yup, I think I have accumulated quite some experience thus far and I definitely hope to be able to learn more from here and that the remaining years of my life will not be restricted to working in a boring and mundane environment.
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